Speech Language Pathologist, Per Diem
Core
Provides therapy to patients with communication, cognitive, or swallowing impairments in an acute care setting.
Role type
Speech Language Pathologist (Per Diem)
Builds
Patient rehabilitation plans and therapeutic interventions
Domain
Healthcare / Rehabilitation
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Clinical assessment, therapeutic intervention design, data gathering, clinical judgment, goal setting, care coordination, documentation, billing, patient/family engagement, program development
Preferred skills
Performance improvement, process improvement, team productivity management
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Assess patients based on physician referrals, gather health data and select tests, make clinical diagnoses, design and modify therapeutic interventions, involve patients and families in goal setting, coordinate care and bill per standards, supervise therapeutic programs, participate in performance improvement activities, manage daily patient schedules
Seniority
Mid-level, hands-on clinician